"Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say."
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"If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful."
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"Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!"
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"Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes."
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"You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you."
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"I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not going to explain to people at large that from time to time one vomits up a small rabbit."
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"All that evilness is always just from pain and fear, and that's what I've come to understand. I've come to understand people now. Before, I would blame them for treating me in such a naïve way. I don't hate evil, vicious people anymore."
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"China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there."
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"There actually had been a tradition within English music of the '60s of people looking eastwards, maybe in quite a naïve way, but nonetheless, you had musicians like George Harrison or Bryan Jones recording the musicians of Joujouka in North Africa."
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"Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera."
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"When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states. This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come. That is the country that we are going to be celebrating. And those are the people that we are one with."
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"I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness."
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"I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach."
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"An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery."
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"I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be"
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"I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself."
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"I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be."
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"Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs."
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"If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth."
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"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
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